I don’t know how to categorize these, sorry!
Screenings: 3/4/04 9:45pm at San Jose Rep and 3/5/04 11:15pm at Camera 3
Title List:
All in All (dir. Torbjorn Skarlid)
Apotheosis (dir Janet Wondra)
Back (dir. Sam Toy)
Elegy (dir. Jeffrey Travis)
Fast Film (dir Virgil Widrich)
Kerst (dir. Andrew Awes)
Parallel Passage (dir. Mandi Riggi)
Pol Pot’s Birthday (dir. Talmage Cooley)
Tackle Box (dir. Matthew Mebane)
The Three of Us (dirs. Nirvan Mullick, Benjamin Goldman)
What about the Bodies? (dir. Simon Ellis)

This collection is aptly titled and will indeed bend your mind. Some of the shorts are sweet and some are scary, but they are all immensely twisted. It’s hard to single out any one for comment because the entire batch are marvellously done and utterly bizarre. “The Three of Us” is a beautiful, Dali-esque work of claymation, compellingly strange and stunning. “Pol Pot’s Birthday” is irreverant but truthful. Many of these films feel like Twilight Zone episodes without the comfort, and they are definitely worth seeing.